{"title":"Dialogo intorno alle immagini di Bruno Mangiaterra","authors":"Andrea Carnevali","doi":"10.7358/LING-2018-002-CARN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/LING-2018-002-CARN","url":null,"abstract":"The oeuvre of Bruno Mangiaterra focuses almost entirely on the problem of the signification of abstract objects. By privileging words, the artist manages to attribute new values to the work of art. Research on the visual texts of the artist brings out a certain interest on the part of the painter for linguistic culture, although he never worked out a real methodical approach to the art of writing. Since his production of paintings and installation art has been enhanced over time by verbal statements, his works have become visual texts.","PeriodicalId":302041,"journal":{"name":"Linguæ & - Rivista di lingue e culture moderne","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121437170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reporting the Death of Charles Kingsley: The Early Biographical Reaction in Newspapers and Magazines","authors":"J. Klaver","doi":"10.7358/ling-2018-002-klav","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ling-2018-002-klav","url":null,"abstract":"There has long been a lively academic interest in the Victorian author, Christian Socialist and Church of England priest Charles Kingsley. Yet it is only as a minor author that he takes his place in English Literature. As a thinker he is hardly influential today, and as a consequence his works are little read by the general public. Apart from his children’s book The Water-Babies , few of his published works are still in print. But what were the assessments of his importance in the weeks following his death? What did his contemporaries think of a man who during his life was a most influential, and often very controversial, public figure? This essay looks at the reactions in the obituaries that appeared all over the world in the first weeks following Kingsley’s death. These publications are a measure of what people in 1875 thought were his best works and his main qualities, thus revealing to what extent, at the time of his demise, his contemporaries still thought him representative of their generation.","PeriodicalId":302041,"journal":{"name":"Linguæ & - Rivista di lingue e culture moderne","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126057178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A proposito di alcuni scrittori dell’Alto Adige e non: Joseph Zoderer, Sabine Gruber, Francesca Melandri","authors":"L. Renzi","doi":"10.7358/LING-2018-002-RENZ","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/LING-2018-002-RENZ","url":null,"abstract":"These three writers, in many ways emblematic of South Tyrolean literature, present, albeit with differences, a unifying element: an identity crisis, an uncertain collocation between two different linguistic cultural communities. This background is expressed in different ways in the three works, which also offer, as a second central theme, a process of intimate emancipation in their individual destinies of one, or rather more, female figures. The interweaving of individual destinies and politics of either the recent history of South Tyrol or that of the tumultuous past of wars makes the respective ‘stories’ emblematic of this difficult region. The many facets offered present various elements of analysis, but in their novelty these works are born from a tradition of continuous dialogue with its ‘contiguous’ literatures, primarily with the Central European and the Italian tradition, which is precisely the third characterizing element of border cultures.","PeriodicalId":302041,"journal":{"name":"Linguæ & - Rivista di lingue e culture moderne","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127655770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brevi riflessioni sull’uso della letteratura nella didattica della lingua araba","authors":"Angela Langone","doi":"10.7358/LING-2018-002-LANG","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/LING-2018-002-LANG","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims at investigating the role of Arabic Literature in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, from the first manuals and grammars to the new tools, from the grammar-translation method to the digital storytelling approach. The situation of Arabic language teaching in Italy is compared to the methods used in the rest of Europe, notably in France where there is a long tradition in teaching Arabic. The debate also focuses on which literary texts, which literary periods (Classical or Contemporary Arabic Literature), which genres, and which authors are best suited to improving the linguistic skills of the learners. Finally, the paper deals with the question of diglossia and dialects in Arabic teaching as L2.","PeriodicalId":302041,"journal":{"name":"Linguæ & - Rivista di lingue e culture moderne","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132065814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Torture, Literature, and History in Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Leather Funnel”","authors":"James Krasner","doi":"10.7358/LING-2018-002-KRAS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/LING-2018-002-KRAS","url":null,"abstract":"Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story “The Leather Funnel” is a brief, rather ghastly tale that centers on a dream vision of a woman being brutally tortured. Doyle’s other major publication of 1902, The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct , was his defense of the British army against claims made by W. T. Stead in Methods of Barbarism (1901) that Boer women and children had been the victims of war crimes and systematic torture. Doyle structures the story so that the narrator’s naive response of moral outrage at seeing a woman being tortured gradually develops into a more sophisticated understanding of justice as his vision is placed in its proper legal and historical context. Taken together, “The Leather Funnel” and The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct offer useful insights into Doyle’s understanding of the relationship between literature and history, and the deployment of state power through written language.","PeriodicalId":302041,"journal":{"name":"Linguæ & - Rivista di lingue e culture moderne","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133487920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"L’Europa dei romanzi: Galeotto o dell’amicizia","authors":"Arianna Punzi","doi":"10.7358/LING-2018-001-PUNZ","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/LING-2018-001-PUNZ","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most fascinating characters of Lancelot en prose is Galehaut, Lord of the Faraway Islands. The story about his friendship and relationship with the young Lancelot becomes the occasion to introduce a different matter into the plot of the narration, conveying a sense of civilization to the word of romance.","PeriodicalId":302041,"journal":{"name":"Linguæ & - Rivista di lingue e culture moderne","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114995853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Tracce’? L’\"Alexandre\" di Alberico da Besançon e il \"Sirventese lombardesco\" nel loro contesto manoscritto","authors":"S. Resconi","doi":"10.7358/LING-2018-001-RESC","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/LING-2018-001-RESC","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the role that two important Romance texts – Alberic de Besancon’s Alexandre and the “Sirventese lombardesco” – play within their unique manuscript witnesses (respectively Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Pluteo 64.35 and Modena, Biblioteca Estense e Universitaria, γ.N.8.4.11-13). This specific point of view allows to better understand the meaning and the cultural significance that ancient readers gave to those texts, and it is also useful to better understand the phenomenon of adventitious transcriptions of Romance texts into Latin or vernacular manuscripts (with particular reference to the category of ‘tracce’).","PeriodicalId":302041,"journal":{"name":"Linguæ & - Rivista di lingue e culture moderne","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129926081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carlo d’Angiò e poesia antiangioina: prove di nascita di un’identità europea","authors":"Cesare Mascitelli","doi":"10.7358/LING-2018-001-MASC","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/LING-2018-001-MASC","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to demonstrate how Charles I of Anjou’s figure and government affected the development of a European cultural and political identity between 1246 and 1285. In fact, the features of anti-Angevin literature (whose major promoters were Occitan troubadours) confirm the existence of a common awareness of political instability and of a widespread feeling of opposition to Charles. In this sense, the fact that different authors used similar recurring forms, themes and rhetorical strategies at the same time suggests the existence of a European identity. New data are given to corroborate this hypothesis, such as the position of German Minnesanger , Austorc de Segret and Ricaut Bonomel (active in the Holy Land), as well as the involvement of European kings (such as Peter III of Aragon, Alfonso X of Castile and Edward I of England) in the context of anti-Angevin poetry.","PeriodicalId":302041,"journal":{"name":"Linguæ & - Rivista di lingue e culture moderne","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132437529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Presentazione","authors":"Antonella Negri, R. Tagliani","doi":"10.7358/ling-2018-001-negr","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ling-2018-001-negr","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":302041,"journal":{"name":"Linguæ & - Rivista di lingue e culture moderne","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128687628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ospitare una lingua: tentazioni, esitazioni, affondi","authors":"M. Longobardi","doi":"10.7358/LING-2018-001-LONG","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/LING-2018-001-LONG","url":null,"abstract":"Petronius’ “tasty novel of the slums”, Apuleius’ mannerisms, Guiraut Riquier’s alliterative lyric, the rewriting of the Roman de la Rose in the neo-vulgar dialect of Ancona, an Occitan twentieth-century epic, a gothic novel in Limousine dialect where Man and Nature are intertwined: every text constitutes a different challenge to the “conscious” translator. A complex and sophisticated cultural task that is never rewarded adequately.","PeriodicalId":302041,"journal":{"name":"Linguæ & - Rivista di lingue e culture moderne","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116369677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}